Cartoonist calls Condi Rice 'murderer' – again

WorldNetDaily ^ | 01/27/2004 | Paul Sperry

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV.

Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war.

He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams.

The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face."

In a Sunday broadcast of the "Black Forum" show, McGruder, speaking from Los Angeles, repeated the epithet, arguing that Rice, as one of the administration's "biggest hawks," advised the president on a war that led to the "slaughter of innocent people in Iraq."

Some of the black panelists assembled in the Washington studio winced at the remarks.

Conservative syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams rebuked the cartoonist, whose strip is syndicated in more than 250 newspapers.

"I can't get over the fact you labeled Miss Rice a murderer," he said.

The low-key McGruder, 29, asserted that he has a right to his opinion.

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.

NAACP chairman Julian Bond, another panelist, wrote it off to "satire," but added, smiling, "I agree with his politics."

Late last year, McGruder made Rice's love life the topic of his comic.

"Maybe if there was a man in the world who Condoleezza truly loved, she wouldn't be so hell-bent to destroy it," one of his "Boondocks" characters speculates in a strip.

The Washington Post pulled the series on Rice, which ran some five days. The Cincinnati Enquirer dropped the strip altogether.

McGruder, who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, claims Rice, also black, asked him to write her into his strip.

"Boondocks," a hip-hop version of Doonesbury, is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.

McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree, has written a best-selling coffee-table collection of his strips called "A Right to be Hostile."

He's reportedly developing with Sony a prime-time animated series based on "Boondocks" for Fox. It's slated for the fall.

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Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and author of "Crude Politics."

[lilylangtree]

NAACP chairman Julian Bond, another panelist, wrote it off to "satire," but added, smiling, "I agree with his politics."

The above statement explains everything from the obvious to reading between the lines. NAACP and this McGruder are liberal leftists just like Gary Trudeau of the Doonesbury strip. Fox giving McGruder his own show, huh? I'll be sure to miss it. Should call for a boycott of the show. That would be our opinion to him. Wonder how long it would the show would last?

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

The low-key McGruder, 29, asserted that he has a right to his opinion.

He sure does, just ask Al...

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[VaBthang4]

Listen, we all know what this guy is.

Small framed and geeky. He was taunted and picked on in school, introverted, he developed his artistic side by drawing fantasy all day.......because reality sucked.

Went off to college where he hung around the perifery of Black college life...struggled for exceptance by studying African American dogma...probably was an outsider in a black fraternity, wasnt on the step team, couldnt participate in athletics and probably didnt get that much tail save that handed out by the campus freaks.

Probably lived in a perpetual state of wannabehood, got beat up a few times through the years and is bitter about it [much like Bill Maher].

Now he is an adult suffering from arreserted developement who needs an excuse.

Condi Rice, Conservatives, White People, The establishment, The rules, etc, etc. provide his excuse.

He's not rocketscience.

[princess leah]

The man is a complete moron, incapable of honest and fluid thoughts. Must have had 1 too many sniffs from the glue bottle, don't ya know?

[lormand]

What else does one expect from a graduate of "African-American Studies"?

[quantim]

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.

That is OK, actually.  I say that several times a day about Hillary and no one ever condemns me.

[Houmatt]

Here is an idea: Let's Freep the hell out of Fox and make sure Boondocks the series never makes it to air:

askfox@foxinc.com

[LiteKeeper]

Check to see if he is pro-Choice. If he is, that makes him pro-murder in the truest sense - and a bit of a hypocrite!

[tioga]

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.

By this reasoning, all supporters of abortion are murders as well. Wonder if he is pro-choice and should be labeled a murderer as well? Makes more sense then his claiming Condi is one.

Geez, more liberal muck on the air disguised as entertainment. What next?

[FreedomCalls]

Since when does the head of the National Security Council and National Security Advisor to the President of the United States of America care what a "cartoonist" has to say? Does she care what the waitress at the Denny's over at the exit to the Interstate says about her? The waitress's opinion should carry about the same weight as a "cartoonist's" does.

[erasmus605]

What the heck does one do with a degree in African American studies (other than doing race baiting strips)?

Why, you teach African American studies, of course.

[lilylangtree]

Absolutely. Sounds like he's riding high. He's courted by the liberal left for his skin color. H'weirdo promises his own show. His comic strip, a takeoff from another liberal leftist, is popular with a particular section of the populace. Hangers on calling him the next big star. But ya know, when you get down to it A STAR IS NOTHING BUT A BIG BALL OF GAS, courtesy of Dolly Parton from "Rhinestone Cowboy". Some words of wisdom: Be nice to those you pass going up because they're the same ones you meet going down.

[Houmatt]

ping

[JoJo Gunn]

He's not the only one who hates seeing blacks advance. (This came from that Leftist site "whitehouse.org")

[erasmus605]

It's too bad we cant just get 'American Studies' degrees.

Oh, you can. But the coursework is mostly bashing america and celebrating "diversity". I took an American Studies class at SJSU, and I learned:

• how to find out if I'm a victim
• how to catergorize people by class
• Reagan was a horrible president
• how to find "hidden racism"
• lots more -isms than I ever knew existed (ageism)

So basically it's crap.

[pabianice]

McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree

That's called "Graduated While Being Black" where I come from.

[Cobra64]

Oh, great - just what we need; more airtime devoted to demonrat progaganda.

Great. These people make up 13% of the USA population, 75% of our prison population, 95% of the media coverage, and this clown makes this statement about our National Security Advisor to the President?!?!?!

This dolt should ask how many terrorists the Clintons pardoned. And check out the death list in Arkansas and in DC under his friend, "The Great Stained One."

/end rant

[clintonh8r]

Too bad Aaron's mommy made the wrong choice...

[alloysteel]

Aaron McGruder is just another self-hating black. He might NEVER find the path to redemption.

That would require venturing outside the hive.

[irv]

just what we need; more airtime devoted to demonrat progaganda.

Yes, we do. The more virulent and deranged this stuff gets, the more people decide to vote Republican.